Music History
Beginnings
Music has had a home in North America for the thousands of years that Indians and Inuit have lived on this continent. Their music, however, enters recorded history only with...

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Some of this sites, such as Barkerville, serve up a staff of actors...

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Road to 2017
The 150th anniversary of Canada will gather Canadians from coast to coast to coast, in every province and territory, to celebrate our strong, proud and free nation.

As we look back throughout Canada's history, the RCMP contributed in many ways — from the March West from Fort Dufferin in Manitoba, to the Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Craigellachie, British Columbia, to the St. Roch's passage through the Northwest Passage, to the...

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Greeted by the locals

At Nootka Sound, the crew set to work cutting wood, setting up an iron forge and making repairs to the ship....

Canadian ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, helped 6 Americans escape from Tehran on January 28, making him an overnight international celebrity.

On April 12, Terry Fox dipped his right (prosthetic) foot into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland, to begin his Marathon of Hope: a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research. On September 1 (Labour Day), after running the equivalent...

Jean Lesage, representing the Liberal party, won the provincial election in Québec on June 22. This effectively began the Quiet Revolution in which French-Canadians press the federal government for special status within Confederation.

The Canadian Bill of Rights was approved.

People of the First Nation (Natives) were finally given the right to vote in federal elections.

Former prime minister Arthur Meighen died in Toronto, Ontario, on August 5.

British colonies in North America are united under the British North American Act to become the Dominion of Canada. The Act, drafted by John A. Macdonald and signed on May 8, became effective on July 1, 1867. (See photo of the Fathers of Confederation)

Alexander Mackenzie was knighted. That same year, Mackenzie joined the XY Company (New North West Company). In 1803, the entire company was reorganized under Mackenzie's name, but, by the end of 1804, the XY Company had been absorbed by the rival North West Company, the very company the XY had hoped to run out of business.

The War of Spanish Succession began in Europe. By 1702, it had spread into North America (where it was known as Queen Anne's War) in Acadian (Canada) and New England (United States). Francis Nicholson captured Port Royal for England in 1710, and, in 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended Queen Anne's War. England gained total possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia (except for...

Beaver hats became the fashion rage in Europe in the early 17th century, and no self-respecting European was without one. This began a rush by both French and English merchants to establish control over the fur trade in the New World. Trading companies, including the Hudson's Bay Company (which still exists today) spang up almost overnight and many towns grew up around them. For the first time in history, hostilities between...

In the beginning, North America and Canada did not exist... at least in the minds of Europeans. They knew of Cathay and of the rich trade possibilities there, but the ocean to the west was a barrier which seemed too vast to cross. When overland trade routes became blocked and the voyage around Africa was found to be long and dangerous, the European nations began to look westward for a shorter journey. Little did they...